Before The Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABACD CDDADA AEAEEFEG| BEFORE the rain low in the obscure east | A |
| Weak and morose the moon hung sickly gray | B |
| Around its disc the storm mists cracked and creased | A |
| Wove an enormous web wherein it lay | B |
| Like some white spider hungry for its prey | B |
| Vindictive looked the scowling firmament | A |
| In which each star that flashed a dagger ray | B |
| Seemed filled with malice of some dark intent | A |
| The marsh frog croaked and underneath the stone | C |
| The peevish cricket raised a creaking cry | D |
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| Within the world these sounds were heard alone | C |
| Save when the ruffian wind swept from the sky | D |
| Making each tree like some sad spirit sigh | D |
| Or shook the clumsy beetle from its weed | A |
| That in the drowsy darkness bungling by | D |
| Sharded the silence with its feverish speed | A |
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| Slowly the tempest gathered Hours passed | A |
| Before was heard the thunder's sullen drum | E |
| Rumbling night's hollow and the Earth at last | A |
| Restless with waiting like a woman dumb | E |
| With doubting of the love that should have clomb | E |
| Her casement hours ago avowed again | F |
| 'Mid protestations joy that he had come | E |
| And all night long I heard the Heavens explain | G |
Madison Julius Cawein
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